I’ve just returned home from Columbia, S.C., where I took part in a spirited debate over which is the most important sport in the South — NASCAR or football. I picked football (see my column two weeks ago). Hope I did OK. More...

Fire Prevention Week always coincides with National Newspaper Week. We will toot our own horn a little. We don’t want the praise individually but we do think newspapers are a vital and important part of a community. More...

On September 18, BP engineers permanently sealed the broken mile-deep oil well that has bedeviled our world for far too long. This milestone came three weeks after BP handed over its claims processing operations to an independent overseer. More...